shouting match

Example Sentences

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Bessent responded that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which oversees bank license applications, was an independent entity before the testimony descended into a shouting match.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

It became a three-way shouting match, the visit was cut short, and the minerals deal didn’t get signed.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2025

Hussain and Rosenberg forged a friendship through a dialogue that began as a social media shouting match between opposing viewpoints, which Stewart opined made them better and more accessible experts than he.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2024

It led to a lengthy shouting match between the two men.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2023

Behind me, where the casino boat was moored, a shouting match had erupted.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen